EA DICE has dropped the full Mirror’s Edge Catalyst trailer they were teasing earlier in the week, and it’s looking pretty damned good. Hero Faith infiltrates an impossibly trendy corporate office, and then runs right back the other way when a full security squad shows up.
You can’t tell too much from a brief gameplay demo, of course, but it looks like the level designers have done a good job of laying out potential free-running routes without undermining the illusion of an open city. Faith flings herself across gaps, shimmies up pipes, and smashes through glass panels, and it all looks remarkably natural.
Even the combat looks decent. The key here is momentum - there’s a lot of context-sensitive actions that our hero can perform, which allow her to deal with guards while moving relentlessly onwards. There’s a lovely bit where Faith grabs onto a pole, swings round and double-kicks a hapless soldier in the chest, bowling him over.
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is set for release on February 25, 2016. Here’s hoping it can really build on the promise of the first game.
